FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

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Well the weather looks like it was going to go to hell on Wednesday night so I changed my reservation, thanks hotel, to Monday and Tuesday night and will be leaving in the morning.  I will be staying on North Padre. It is a short ride to put in at Bird Island Basin in the park, and I love the boat parking at the motel.  So the rest of this afternoon will be getting ready to go.  Hopefully a big trout is in my future!

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Weather

85/71.  Mostly sunny with a 10% chance of rain.  Wind S 10 – 20.

Tides

Low 12:22 pm.  0.1.  High  10:03 pm  2.3

Solunar Times

Good 9:13 am  Best  3:28 pm to 5:28 pm.

I left the house around 5:30 and headed to PINS to put in at Bird Island Basin.  Not only was a big trout NOT happening today, I had one big small fish extravaganza.  I was in the water on the first bank on the King Ranch shoreline a little before 9:00 in an area I usually catch fish.  But a big problem reared it’s ugly head almost immediately.  The wind was pounding on the shoreline and with the tide going out it was covered in grass.  And when it is to grassy to fish a Controlled Descent it is to grassy to fish.  Plus hopefully topwater was still on the plate even though it was a little late in the morning.

Next it was across the bay to the island where there was little floating grass and the wind was not an issue.  I started on a big point that has a drop running along it.   And the catching began.  But keeping with my new policy concerning pictures, if I don’t want to see it you sure don’t.  So here us the only one I was happy with.

Fun on 8lb. test.

To make a long story short I caught maybe 15 trout, 5 reds, and 1 flounder.  Only a couple of the trout were even close, all the reds but one were rats, and the flounder was the smallest I ever caught.   It was about the size of one of those dollar pancakes.  That bank is long with plenty of good water, but no matter what I used it was small fish.  The DOA Cal was the preferred bait, though I threw the book at them.  Even caught a couple on a popping cork, which I have not used in I don’t know how long.  Seemed logical with the wind blowing.  Not even a sniff on topwater.  I moved the boat 3 times as I worked a long stretch and was just about to really move when something happened I have not seen before.

All of a sudden a big trout, and I mean a hoss in the 7lb range, came chasing bait and went right by my leg in 2′ of water.  She ended up on the sand and I could see her, and even made a couple of pretty good casts at her but she was spooked by then.  Unfortunately that gave me false hope so I kept working down the bank but the quality did not improve.  It will definitely be play it by ear tomorrow, not sure if right place wrong time, or what.  This is my 5th time here and there is so much to learn.  This is one big pond.

On a completely different note it always seems strange to see deer, without a tree in sight, on the way to the ramp.  And there were more ducks than I would have thought, just shows you, it is almost November and it doesn’t seem like fall.  At 4:00 it was time to call it a day and head to the motel and check in.  A brew and a burger, followed by early to bed as it will be on the water before the sun comes up. Not sure where I am going to start as the wind is supposed to blow up to 25 mph.  Keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines